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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.28, June 2006
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N E W S
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- Neues Kompetenzzentrum im Bereich internationale Studien (EDI)
- Der Reis wird knapp (Wochenzeitung)
- Call for posters - GFAR Triennial Conference 2006 (GFAR)
- Transgenic maize: unexpected differences (NCCR Plant Survival)
- Schweizer Allianz gegen den Hunger (BLW)

... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/new.htm

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
  Susette Biber-Klemm, Thomas Cottier (eds.)
- Trees for poverty alleviation
  Posters of the ZIL Conference 2006
- Access and benefit sharing. Good practice for academic research
  Swiss Academy of Sciences. 2006
- Gender and Sustainable Development - Case Studies from NCCR 
  North-South. Smita Premchander, Christine Müller (eds.)
- Monopole auf Leben - Eine Tagung zu Biotechpatenten
  Symposium presentations. EvB / Swissaid
- Indicator and Assessment Systems
  Presentations 1st INFASA Symposium. SHL/IISD

... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/publications.htm

E V E N T S
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- Effective learning for sustainable behaviour. CIEA Seminar 2006
  (13.-26.08.2006, Posieux, Switzerland)
- International Disaster Reduction Conference
  (26.08.-01.09.2006, Davos, Switzerland)
- World Congress - Agricultural Engineering for a Better World
  (03.-07.09.2006, Bonn, Germany)

... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/events.htm

J O B   V A C A N C I E S
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- GFAR Executive Secretary
  Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), Rome, Italy
- PhD position in small ruminant systems in dry areas of Syria
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland / Syria
- Post Doctoral Fellow - Insect-Plant-Environment Interaction
  ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya
- Coordinator for AVRDC’s Sub-Regional Office in Mali
  AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, Bamako, Mali

... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/jobs.htm

S F I A R - I N T E R N A L - P A G E S
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- Next SFIAR Meeting: 25.10.2006, Lausanne (EPFL/ISCB)
- Minutes of last SFIAR Meeting
- Updated address list of SFIAR members
  
... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/sfiarinterndoc.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)

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